Difference between s3cmd, boto and AWS CLI

Question

I am thinking about redeploying my static website to Amazon S3. I need to automate the deployment so I was looking for an API for such tasks. I'm a bit confused about the different options.

Question: What is the difference between s3cmd, the Python library boto and AWS CLI?

Answer 1

• s3cmd and AWS CLI are both command line tools while boto is a Python library which is the official AWS SDK for Python.

• s3cmd and AWS CLI are used when you use shell scripting for deployment.

• boto is well suited when we are writing scripts only using Python.

• s3cmd supports all of AWS CLI’s commands and also has more extensive functionalities. 

• Learn more from these documentations:

  • AWS CLI - https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

  • s3cmd - https://s3tools.org/s3cmd

  • boto - http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest